For the 12th year in a row, the Bitfilm Festival presents films that use digital technology in a creative and innovative way. This year it has started with an opening event in Hamburg, Germany on October 17, and carried on with a global Internet-based film competition. Its climax will be the closing event, which will take place for the first time in Indias hi-tech metropolis Bangalore.

It will start with the award ceremony on December 2nd, where the most popular films of these three categories will be screened:

3D SPACE: entirely computer generated Films made with 3D animation software 

FX MIX: Films which mix various techniques digitally, eg. 3D animation, 2D animation and live action 

MACHINIMA: films which are shot live inside a computer game or a virtual world like Second Life 

The winner films in each category have been chosen by Bitfilms worldwide audience in an online vote.

Bitfilm was the first festival worldwide with a Machinima competition for game-based films. In Bangalore it will also host a worldwide Machinima Marathon, bringing together game-based filmmakers from across the globe. Participants of this contest are required to produce a Machinima film over a span of 24 hours.

“We are really happy to reach out to the wonderful Indian audience, and we are looking forward to engage with young and creative Indian minds”, says Aaron Koenig, Director of the Bitfilm Festival. 

The Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, has taken responsibility to help in hosting the 12th Bitfilm festival in collaboration with the Goethe Institute / Max Müller Bhavan, Bangalore. Christoph Bertrams, Director of the institute says: “Its a great privilege for us to bring the Bitfilm Festival to India, as it has been quite a success in Hamburg, Barcelona,Telaviv, Tokyo and other cities”.